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Originally posted by Tom McGinnity:
My carb suffered from hard start after sitting but ran great.

Tom, look at this page for a possible cause for your hard starting issue.

You might also want to read this. It offers a different fix for a warped top and a interesting way to check the float height setting.

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Sorry it's early and I'm too lazy to look up those sites. Tom you pull the top plate off and there are reliefs in the float where you can bend it a little to close the float valve a little sooner.
I did everything I could to keep the bowl seals in the bottom of the body sealed, gas is so non-viscous. But if mine sits for much more than overnight without being started, I can cranking it and pump the throttle all day, got to pour a little prime in it to get her going. I pour it down the bowl vent hole right in front of the air cleaner stud. Those little crinkly clear water bottles make a good dispenser, one of the few things I found that the gas doesn't melt. That kind of tells you something about those bottles doesn't it.

Updates--- Visit to Shop 7/27/13:
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Frame is now installed along with front suspension hardware; Also rear end has been reinstalled;

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Heater box is in, and starting to install wiring, junction block; etc.;

More inside wiring in progress, and console has been reconditioned:

John floored me with an unexpected discovery when I walked into the shop: When reconditioning the console-- they found my old Drivers License (the one that was issued on my 16th birthday)-- that apparently somehow got stuck in the console many years ago.

I have absolutely no recollection of losing it or getting a replacement-- but after all it would have been lost somewhere between 35-38 years ago (expiration date 1978)...

We spent alot of time looking and comparing carpet samples to original carpet.

Acknowledgements to Kevin K. for his prior work in this area in summer of 2012 ( https://camaropacecars.com/eve/...0019733/m/9101051836 ).

Essentially, I wanted to see if we came up with the same conclusions...

Here's where we started from: Remnant of carpet from my Pacer is on lower/right side of split... on the left & upper is carpet from under the door sill of my 732-Z Coupe donor car... This is the best look out of many pictures I took, depending on camera angle, shadows, etc. it looks a little different from one picture to the next...

Ultimately we concluded the carpet was the same in both cars, only in the convertible it was much more faded and a lot dirtier...

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another look from the "full disclosure" department, in this one you can see the effects of the fading & dirt I described above...

SO; taking a page from Kevin's book (Thanks Again Kevin!!!!)... I had obtained samples from ACC and from Trim Parts of different color carpet samples. These are the ACC samples contrasted against the door sill from the coupe (which as I mentioned above, we concluded was the same as the Pacer carpet);

We decided we liked the one in the middle... (I KNOW WHAT YOUR'E WONDERING ALREADY... Which one is which???... read on)

I can't say this was a perfect process... as evidenced here with BOTH original carpets, with different camera angle, and the factory samples sandwiched inbetween... again the convertible carpet (bottom) shows the effects of fading & dirt... but we still liked the one in the middle...

Taking another look with the Trim Parts samples (I only asked for 3)-- Same conclusion again-- #512 Sky Blue

Here is a better picture of the Trim Parts samples lined up with the door sill carpet.

And on to the welting...

I did obtain samples of 2 weltings from ACC (#KVD- Med. Blue, and #8841- Dk. Blue)(thanks again Kevin), and 3 samples from Trim Parts (unfortunately theirs were not labeled, but I suspect they correspond to the 3 carpet samples).

OVERALL-- I think results are inconclusive at this point because I only compared the samples to the very small edge-banded sections of carpet under the front seats. It did not occur to me until I got home, that the more important comparison would be to the door panel carpeting which is obviously much more highly visible.

My plan is to make another trip to the shop this week, and conduct more comparison of my samples to the door panels. Will post findings as soon as this can be arranged.

Nevertheless: including here a couple pictures from yesterday... First picture (below) is the Trim Parts welting... sorry no color names...